Best Performing Vintage (Pre 2000) Dishwasher Model Ever!

[norgeway]

I had a Whirlpool

In our first house, like one pictured above, I have to say it was the worst dishwasher i ever owned, the silverware in the door always had food left on them, and it died in about 5 years,

 

[tomturbomatic]

I agree with Hans. The silverware basket in the lower rack like in my Ultra Clean is a better location to keep particles from lodging amongst the silverware. I just pray that my wonderful appliances outlive me.

 

[combo52]

WP-PC Silverware Basket Placement

I virtually never find even a single particle of food left on anything in the In-Door silver-ware baskets of my two WP PC DWs, we have the TOL KM version of these great DWs in the museum kitchen that has the large SWB in the lower rack and I find it much less convenient to load and unload and even with the extra space in the front of the lower rack you just don't get as much in the DW as with the SWB in the door.

 

The in the door SWB allows one handed loading of dirty silverware with out getting your fingers dirty and one handed unloading by being able to lift the entire basket out of the DW with one hand and lay it on the counter and open it and you can unload and sort the clean SW without ever touching the ends of the SW that touch food.

 

And best of all you can load individual dirty item without bending over and pulling the lower rack out by simply opening the door only 6" and dropping the dirty spoon etc from counter top height and it drops into place. The IDSWB is also preface for loading over a dozen large spoons and serving utensils in every loads without taking up rack space and having things falling through the racks etc.

 

John L.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

I'd go with whirlpool

The whirlpool powerclean would clean everything you threw at it. It didn't matter how crusty or caked on blueberry pancake dishes are, combined with coffee mugs with coffee stains and plates with blueberry syrup and stuck on cheese from omelettes.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I'm glad you used the word virtually because I remember unloading a WP at your house with stuff in the silver basket. I am glad that things have improved over the decades.

 

[agiflow]

I had yibbles get between the basket and the door but the utensils themselves were clean.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

pictures

I wish I had pictures, but I don't have any so I will let the ones above speak for themselves.